Inuit

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Inuit

• By Nick, Shaina, Brianna, Wes and Ryan P.

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Shelter

• They lived in igloos.
• They slept on platforms made of snow and ice.
  They also slept on platforms made of twigs and
  caribou furs.
• Each igloo had some freshwater ice.
• An Inuit family could build an igloo in a few
  hours.
• They burned animal blubber to light their homes.

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Clothing

• They keep warm by wearing layers of loose-fitting
  clothing.
• On top of the layers, they wore a furry parka
  that hung down to their knees.
• They wore sealskin boots called kamikes or
  mukluks.
• Women made clothes from the skins of foxes,
  bears, caribou, seals, and other animals.
• The Inuit scraped the skins clean with a knife
  called a ulu.

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Food

• Their main food was meat and fish.
• They used bones and teeth of animals for fishing
  tools.
• 15 families could survive for a whole year with
  meat, blubber, and oil of one whale.
• They ate Arctic Char, which is a fish.
• They threw poison tipped spears at whales.
• The Inuit tried to harpoon seals.